| Shabas ash-Shuhada شباس الشهداءϫⲁⲃⲁⲥⲉⲛ, ϫⲁⲡⲁⲥⲉⲛ | |
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 Al-Malha mosque in Shabas | |
  Shabas ash-ShuhadaLocation in Egypt | |
| Coordinates: 31°5′26.44″N 30°44′51.05″E / 31.0906778°N 30.7475139°E / 31.0906778; 30.7475139 | |
| Country |  Egypt |
| Governorate | Kafr el Sheikh |
| Population | |
| • Total | 32,191 |
| Time zone | UTC+2 (EST) |
Shabas ash-Shuhada (Arabic: شباس الشهداء, from Coptic: ϫⲁⲃⲁⲥⲉⲛ, ϫⲁⲡⲁⲥⲉⲛ, romanized: Jabasen, Japasen) is a city in Kafr el-Sheikh Governorate of Egypt.
In Ptolemaic and Byzantine Egypt it was known as Kabasa (Ancient Greek: Καβασα) or Gabasson (Ancient Greek: Γαβάσσων) and was a center of the Kabassite nome, which after the Muslim conquest of Egypt was transformed into a kurah.
References
- Timm, Stefan. Das christlich-koptische Agypten in arabischer Zeit. pp. 2218–2221.
- Al-Maqrīzī. Book of Exhortations and Useful Lessons in Dealing with Topography and Historical Remains. Translated by Stowasser, Karl. Hans A. Stowasser. p. 287.